At least 53 people, mostly migrants, have died in what we was termed as the worst road accident to hit the country in recent years.
The deaseased that were travelling on Thursday from central America died after the truck they were travelling in crushed in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, officials calling it one of the worst road accidents in the country in recent years.
Luis Manuel Garcia the head of the Chiapas Civil protection agency while giving an account of what happened said that a large truck overturned on a dangerous curve outside the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez.
locals said that the travellers were more than 100 although quoting from news site aljazera, “some of the bloodied passengers fled the scene for fear of being detained by immigration”.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez described the incident as ” very painful”.
